Brother Mark’s first thought was to pray when his wife called. "Amram has
been taken!" his wife desperately told him. The mother had just found Job (3)
walking down the street trying to catch the man that took his brother Amram
(almost 2) from their home in Kampala, Uganda. She quickly organized a search
party and called her husband, Mark Kiwummulo – VGR Translator in Kampala.
This was terrifying. Children are frequently abducted in this area of
east Africa. Tragically, many of these children meet an untimely death
at the hand of their abductors. Ritual sacrifices are common in Uganda,
and witchdoctors pay a high price for young boys.
The following is Brother Mark’s account of this dire situation.
When I got the call, the first
thing that rang in my mind was to pray. I prayed as I remembered
Brother Branham’s testimony about Brother Evans’ lost car which was
recovered by THUS SAITH THE LORD. I told the Lord many things, as
much as the Spirit would remind me. You know how one can develop
such strong faith under desperation! I called the Jeffersonville
office to tell them of my situation.
The search party split into three groups of women and men from my
neighborhood. They searched all around the nearby homes, water
channels, basically everywhere they could find. One group went to
report to the local authorities, while the other two groups
proceeded with the search.
As the search went on, one group found Amram surrounded by many
people in a trading center a distance from home, wondering who his
parents were.
They told the search team that a certain man abandoned the boy by
the roadside and asked the women to try and find the parents of this
boy. He claimed that he had found the boy more than half a kilometer
away from home. As soon as he had dropped the boy, he jumped on a
hired motorcycle and left them wondering what to do with the boy.
Due to the rampant abduction of children in Uganda today, the
women mistook him for a Good Samaritan, so he took advantage of
their ignorance and sped off. They took the boy back to his mother,
and in a few minutes from then, I arrived home in such shock.
I believe that the Lord heard the prayers of the saints for our
child and miraculously saved him from being butchered by sorcerers.
He promised to protect and keep us under the token with all those
under our roofs. Thank you very much for your prayers, and may you
please thank Brother Joseph for me and my family. I convey thanks
from my wife for the concern of VGR Jeffersonville for standing with
us in this hard situation.
May God richly bless you and yours.
Brother Mark Joseph Kiwummulo
The next morning, the headlines in the local newspaper described the
abduction of a twin brother and sister by a sorcerer. The sister was
tortured and set free, but the young boy was not. The two were sold to
the witchdoctor by their stepmother.
Where would Brother Mark and his family have been without faith in
our Lord Jesus? What happened to that man while he was transporting the
child to who knows where? In his most desperate time, what came to
Brother Mark’s mind to give him faith? Where would we all be without the
blessed words of God’s prophet, William Marrion Branham?